Tire for vehicle-wheels.



No. 755,712. PATBNTED MAR. 29, 1904.

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TIRE POR VEHIC-LE WHEELS. APPLICATION FILED AUG, 29, 1903.

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WiFi/e SSQS UNITED STATES Patented March 29, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

TIRE FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,712, dated March 29, 1904.

Application led August 29, 1903.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, WILLIAM HERBERT SEW- ELL, merchant, of 85 Victoria street, Belfast, Ireland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Connected with Tires for Cycles, Motor-Cars, and other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in and connected with tires for cycles, motorcars, and other vehicles and is a further de Velopment of that described in the specification under application Serial No. 149,291, led on the 24th day of March, 1903; and `it consists in a more certain and efficacious device for absorbing vibration, shock, and concussion.

In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into effect, I have hereunto appended one sheet of drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a wheel of a vehicle constructed in accordance with my invention.v Fig. 2 is a sectional perspective view of a wheel, felly, and rim. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are transverse sections of. fellies, rims, and tire, showing different forms of absorbing-buifer. Fig. 7 is a section of rim, showing base-plate or band. i

In my application for patent at present pending, Serial No. 149,291, and inmy therein-mentioned proposal to use buifers or cushions within channel or concavity of rim C it will Abe 'observed by reference to Figs. 2, 3, 5, and 6 of the drawings that a band Gr or so- `called base-plate resting upon face of buffers or cushions .I and of a suiiiciently smaller circumferential and transverse area is made the medium for the attachment of the sections forming outer rim D to or on the wheel by the fact of this base-plate or band Cr and outer rim or face-plate D being bolted together and being thereby made one, F, Figs. 2 and 3. Thus what may be called the tire of the wheel-namely, base-plate or band Grand the sections of outer face-plate or rim D, which'latter holds the rubber tread balls or segments, are made practically one piece and are loose within and project over or out of the channel or concavity of rim C. In the actual running of a wheel-tire thus,

Serial No. 171,311. (No model.)

pressure, shock, or concussion of the ground. tread, will cause an upward thrust of what is designated above as the tire, and the said shock received will be resisted and deadened according to the compressibility of-.the buffers or cushions in the lower half of the wheelcircumference.

The improvement I now propose is simple but important. I propose that the attachment of my outer rim or face-plate D shall be rigidvand direct to the felly E of the wheel and that the base-plate or band Gr will intervene loosely between base I of my rubber tread balls or segments A and the face of the buers J within channel of rim C, as shown more particularly in Figs. 3, 4, 5,'and 6, the effect of this being that pressure, shock, or concussion on the running balls or segments A on ground-tread of wheel will cause an upward thrust of the band G not only against the compressible buffer or cushion J in lower half of wheel, but also against the compressible bases I of balls or segments A in the upper or opposite half of wheels circumference, as shown on Fig. 1. Theface-plate or rim D, as will be seen in Fig. 2 of accompanying drawings, is attached to the felly by bolts F, which pass through elongated slots H in the base-plate or band Gr, but without in any way confining same.

l. In a vehicle-tire, the combination of a felly, an inner channel-shapedrim rigidly secured to said felly, an outer rim fitting over the channel of said inner rim having openings, a plate lying loosely between said rims and dividing the channel circumferentially, segments or balls protruding through the openings of the outer rim and having elongated bases lying securely between said outer rim and said plate, and resilient means interposed between said plate-and the bottom of the channel.

2. In a vehicle-tire, the combination of a felly, a channel-shapedinner rim rigidly secured to said felly, an outer rim fitting over the channel of said inner rim, having openingspavplate lying loosely between said rims, dividing the channel circumferentially and having elongated slots, means securing said TOO outer rim to the felly, said means passing loosely through said slots, segments or balls protruding through the openings of the outer rim and having elongated bases lying securely between said outer rim and said plate, and resilient means interposed between said plate and the bottom of the channel.

3. In a Vehicle-tire, the combination of a felly, a channel-shaped inner rim rigidly secured to said felly, an outer sectional rim litting over the channel of said inner rim, the sections of said outer rim having openings, a plate lying loosely between said rims dividing the channel circumferentially and having elongated slots, means securing the sections of said outer rim to the felly, said means passing loosely through said slots, segments or balls protruding through the openings of the sections of the outer rim and having elongated bases lying securely between said sections and said plate, and resilient means interposed between said plate and the bottom of the channel.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

lWILLIAM HERBERT SEWELL.

Witnesses:

JOHN LIDDLE, JOSEPH HENRY PEARsoN. 

